@moorelizards

Fish tech @illinois_river | @SIUE '24 MS | @UTAustin '22 BS | he/him | swamp creature 🐢🐍🦎🐸 🐟

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Joined August 2020
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Happy to see some of our county records get published 🥳 ssarherps.org/herpetological…
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Big news for the Endangered Houston toad! As John Lomax V reported in the Houston Chronicle yesterday, we’ve been awarded a $5M RCPP grant from the NRCS – in collaboration with TX Parks and Wildlife Department & an extensive partnership network: ARCProtects.org/wp-content/u…
graphic that reads “Houston Chronicle, Conservation group receives $5M grant to fund habitat restoration for Houston toad, by John Lomax V, Staff Writer, November 1, 2024” and features a front-facing photo of a bumpy brown toad with darker brown mottling and large dark brown eyes standing on pale green moss

ALT graphic that reads “Houston Chronicle, Conservation group receives $5M grant to fund habitat restoration for Houston toad, by John Lomax V, Staff Writer, November 1, 2024” and features a front-facing photo of a bumpy brown toad with darker brown mottling and large dark brown eyes standing on pale green moss

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John Moore retweeted
お妙@taeko020314 Oct 2024
本当愛おしいです
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John Moore retweeted
Dallas Zoo@DallasZoo11 Oct 2024
Yesterday, 116 Texas horned lizards started their exciting journey to be released into the wild! Our team has worked tirelessly since their hatching to ensure these little ones are fully prepped and ready for this big moment. Stay tuned for more details on their release!
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📢 Exciting News! For the first time in nearly 120 years, @Mark_A_Davis79 and Sarah Douglass at the @INHSIllinois have found the state-endangered Salamander Mussel alive in Illinois! 🦪 More: loom.ly/ueWR75g #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies
A woman and man standing along a river bank holding salamander mussels and mussel shells.

ALT A woman and man standing along a river bank holding salamander mussels and mussel shells.

An outstretched hand holding six live salamander mussels in a row.

ALT An outstretched hand holding six live salamander mussels in a row.

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The Western Long-toed Salamander (Ambystoma m. macrodactylum) ranges from central Oregon into Washington west of the Cascade range and north into SW British Columbia in Canada. This individual was found somewhere right in the middle.
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Manuscript rejections after a revise and resubmit feels illegal! JAIL!
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John Moore retweeted
誤字@go_zzzi24 Sep 2024
アンビストマの後ろ脚ピクピクは一体なんなのよ？
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John Moore retweeted
お妙@taeko020320 Sep 2024
可愛いな‥ この角度☺️
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Check out some of my ongoing work with Everglades herpetofauna at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge! Thanks to Joshua Prezant and Franco LaTona for documenting my research! multimedia.miami.edu/thenbsp…

The Salamander Whisperer

Just over an hour north of the University of Miami, graduate student Aidan O'Brien and a few other students from associate professor Christopher Searcy's Conservation Ecology Lab are studying how...

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U have to rewatch the last airbender every once in a while to keep ur heart pure
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TMNT! Cowabunga! Hatchling eastern chicken turtles start at just about 1 in. in diameter. As adults, the males of these totally radical (but no longer teenage) turtles grow up to about 6.5 in., while the females may grow to around 10 in. 📷: Nicole Dahrouge #TurtleTuesday
front view photo of a very small mostly green turtle with numerous bright yellow swirls and lines on its head and leg and a bright yellow lower shell being held between a thumb and forefinger with a pond and plants in the background

ALT front view photo of a very small mostly green turtle with numerous bright yellow swirls and lines on its head and leg and a bright yellow lower shell being held between a thumb and forefinger with a pond and plants in the background

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Interested in leading and making an impact at an amazing science conference aka MEEC 2025? If yes, this is the opportunity for you! Fill out our provided google form if interested! If you have any questions, please email [email protected]! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Why is it always "how's the fishing" and not "how's the fisheries biologist?"
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John Moore retweeted
Dallas Zoo@DallasZoo21 Aug 2024
We’ve got 18 reasons to celebrate! Our reptile team has just welcomed 18 Texas horned lizards, with more on the way! If all goes well, these little guys will be released into the wild this fall as part of a statewide effort to restore horned lizard populations.
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🚨BIG FISH ALERT🚨 We caught our longest and 2nd heaviest #LakeSturgeon in the history of our stations #sturgeon survey work (dates back to 1996)! Length was 75.2 inches and weight was 125 pounds! After being measured and tagged the fish was released back into #LakeStClair.
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Marble sculpture of a frog, Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 B.C.). Credit & Collection: Sotheby's.
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The Meditating Frog is a painting by the Japanese monk Sengai Gibon (1750–1837 AD), Edo period.
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It’s one of our favorite times of the year, Texas horned lizard-hatching season! We’ve already had 135 hatchlings this year and are hopeful there will be even more!
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Response to reviewers when you ignore them and just resubmit the same manuscript
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We're hiring! Come join us @UTMSI as a research technician to work on local wetland vegetation monitoring and additional field/experimental studies! Start date as early as August 1 🌿🌊 Apply here: tinyurl.com/5erum5x3
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